Wikipedia tells us that QR code is “matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code)” that can be read by phone cameras. This graphic 
is my “mobile tagged” name, CCLA phone number, and email address. It was generated from my iPhone Contacts with the Optiscan iPhone QR Scanner and Generator iPhone app.
More about this from The Librarian’s Bane – “QR Codes storing addresses and URLs may appear in magazines, on signs, buses, business cards or just about any object that users might need information about. Users with a camera phone equipped with the correct reader software can scan the image of the QR Code causing the phone’s browser to launch and redirect to the programmed URL. This act of linking from physical world objects is known as a hardlink or physical world hyperlinks.”
QR codes are used on wine bottles, signs, and lots of other stuff.
Published by Doug Furiato . . May 29, 2009 . Filed under: Thoughts
Dell’s earnings have dropped by 63% this quarter. However, Maximum Leader Michael Dell sees blue skies on the horizon and says “We are preparing for what we believe will be a powerful replacement cycle”. One of his wish-dreams is that next year businesses and governments will rush out to buy new computers to run Windows 7. Of course, this is the same guy who in 1997 said of Apple “I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”
Apple’s market capitalization passed Dell’s in January 2006.
Yesterday Dell’s stock closed at $11.48.
Yesterday Apple’s stock closed at $135.07.
Published by Doug Furiato . . May 29, 2009 . Filed under: Thoughts
In the beginning, there was the <font> tag. Then there was sIFR, followed by Cufón, and perhaps even @font-face. Soon there will by Typekit.
Published by Mike Houghton . . May 29, 2009 . Filed under: Links Elsewhere
It’s hard to believe that anyone in real life could design something more ill-conceived than The Homer, but the Flying Ford Pinto was a contender. I found this gem under Wikipedia’s List of inventors killed by their own inventions. (They say ‘inventor’, but this has all the hallmarks of being designed by a committee…)
Published by Doug Furiato . . May 26, 2009 . Filed under: Thoughts
Source: Core-toons
Published by Mike Houghton . . May 11, 2009 . Filed under: Links Elsewhere
